Custom Filter for the Filter Bar

Hi @etoolsmith

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Hello @d0153, I did submit a support ticket without having the issue be resolved unfortunately.

Which is why I am reaching out to the public and hopefully find someone who has had success in implementing custom filtering to the filter bar on the new 6.x version of the plugin.

The 5.x version I have had success numerous times but unfortunately ability of creating custom filters on the filter bar is no longer possible based on what I can find and what I was told via the support ticket.

Hi @etoolsmith

Could I ask for the ticket number you’re referring to? I want to review it on my side.

Looking forward to your reply.

Entry: 1613663

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@etoolsmith after far too many hours banging my head against the wall trying to get this to work, support at the events plugin pointed me towards this updated custom code: https://theeventscalendar.com/extensions/creating-a-custom-filter-for-filter-bar/

I was able to use that plugin extension to put in my own filters for custom taxonomies, by…

• installing the plugin
• duplicating the Time_Of_Day_Custom.php file within the src folder
• renaming “class Time_Of_Day_Custom” to “class Whateveryouwant” (I chose “Locations”)
• removing everything after “use Context_Filter;”
• going to the-events-calendar-filterbar/src/Tribe/Filters/Category.php
• copy/pasting everything within the class function into the new file
• replacing “Tribe__Events__Main::TAXONOMY” with my custom post type name (mine was “wpx-location”)
• editing tribe-ext-custom-filter.php to reference the new function by duplicating the other references and updating the names accordingly

examples:

      include_once __DIR__ . '/src/Time_Of_Day_Custom.php';
      include_once __DIR__ . '/src/Locations.php';

      $map['filterbar_time_of_day_custom'] = 'Time_Of_Day_Custom';
      $map['filterbar_locations'] = 'Locations';

        $locations['filterbar_time_of_day_custom'] = [ 
            'read' => [ 
                \Tribe__Context::QUERY_VAR   => [ 'tribe_filterbar_time_of_day_custom' ],
                \Tribe__Context::REQUEST_VAR => [ 'tribe_filterbar_time_of_day_custom' ]
            ], 
        ];
        $locations['filterbar_locations'] = [ 
            'read' => [ 
                \Tribe__Context::QUERY_VAR   => [ 'tribe_filterbar_locations' ],
                \Tribe__Context::REQUEST_VAR => [ 'tribe_filterbar_locations' ]
            ], 
        ];

        new \Time_Of_Day_Custom(
        __( 'Time Custom', 'tribe-events-filter-view' ),
        'filterbar_time_of_day_custom'
        );

        new \Locations(
        __( 'Locations', 'tribe-events-filter-view' ),
        'filterbar_locations'
        );

hope this helps!

Thank you @ukeboyska, yeah they directed me to that updated code as well and with a few tweaks I was able to get it working properly.. It was awhile ago now so I forget the issues that it had but all is working on this project now!